Igbo youth groups on the platform of Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) have declared their support for Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the next Senate President of Nigeria.
The groups has unveiled plans to embark on a two-million-man match to make known their decision for Kalu as the consensus candidate for the South-East Region.
In a communique signed by the president general of the Igbo youth group, Goodluck Ibem, Ndubuisi Uche (secretary) and Okey Nwaoru (publicity secretary), the group urged President Bola Tinubu to release the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on health grounds.
According to the coalition, Kanu’s release would help curb youth restiveness in the South-East region.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is seriously sick and needs urgent better medical treatment by his doctors who knows his medical history and knows better how to treat him for a better medical result,” the communiqué read.
The Igbo socio-cultural group urged the Federal Government should declare a state of emergency on insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and other violent crimes in the nation.
